1966 World Rowing Championships

1966 World Rowing Championships
Yugoslav stamp dedicated to the 1966 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Lake Bled
Location	Bled, Slovenia, Yugoslavia

The 1966 World Rowing Championships was the 2nd World Rowing Championships. It was held in 1966 at Lake Bled in Bled, Slovenia, Yugoslavia.^[1][2]

Quote from Australian rowing history pages: "The superbly organized regatta was held on the magnificent lake at Bled: a fitting setting for the second world championships."^[2] Prior to the 4th World Rowing Championships in 1974, only men competed.^[1]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1966 World Rowing Championships:^[1][2]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x [3]	United States Don Spero		Netherlands Jan Wienese		West Germany Jochen Meißner
M2x [4]	Switzerland Melchior Bürgin Martin Studach		United States Seymour Cromwell Jim Storm		East Germany Manfred Haake Jochen Brückhändler
M2- [5]	East Germany Peter Kremtz Roland Göhler		Austria Dieter Losert Dieter Ebner		Soviet Union Viktor Suslin Boris Fjedorow
M2+ [6]	Netherlands Hadriaan van Nes Jan van de Graaff Poul de Haan		France Jacques Morel Georges Morel Gilles Florent[7]		Italy Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Enrico Pietropolli
M4- [8]	East Germany Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	6:18.41	Soviet Union Zigmas Jukna Antanas Bagdonavičius Volodymyr Sterlyk Juozas Jagelavičius		Netherlands Maarten Kloosterman Roelof Luynenburg Eric Niehe Rudolf Stokvis
M4+ [9]	East Germany Hanno Melzer Horst Bagdonat Helmut Hänsel Karl-Heinz Gzeschuchna Klaus-Dieter Ludwig	6:29	Soviet Union Anatoly Tkachuk Vitaly Kurdchenko Boris Kuzmin Vladimir Yevseyev Anatoly Luzgin		Yugoslavia Boris Ercegovic Predrag Savic Ivo Juginovic Frane Kazija Ljubomir Curovic
M8+ [10]	West Germany Horst Meyer Dirk Schreyer Michael Schwan Ulrich Luhn Peter Hertel Rüdiger Henning Lutz Ulbricht Peter Kuhn Peter Niehusen	5:55	Soviet Union Juri Chodorow Andris Prieditis Aleksandr Martyshkin Arkadi Kudinow Elmars Rubins Vladimir Rikkonen[11] Viktor Suslin Pawel Iljinskij Wiktor Mihejew		East Germany Joachim Böhmer Wolfgang Schulz Jörg Lucke Kurt Wunderlich Erich Wunderlich Klaus-Dieter Bähr Peter Hein Hans-Jürgen Bothe Hartmut Wenzel

Event codes

	single scull	double scull	coxless pair	coxed pair	coxless four	coxed four	eight (coxed)
Men's	M1x	M2x	M2-	M2+	M4-	M4+	M8+

Medals table

Place	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	3	0	2	5
2	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
3	United States	1	1	0	2
4	West Germany	1	0	1	2
5	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
6	Soviet Union	0	3	1	4
7	Austria	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
9	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

References

1. "World Rowing Medalists". HickokSports.com. 29 September 2011. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013.
2. "1966 World Championships—Bled, Yugoslavia". RowingHistory-Aus.info. Archived from the original on 2014-10-21.
3. "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Einer - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. One - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-06-23.
4. "Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften. Doppelzweier – Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Double Sculls - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-25.
5. "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Zweier ohne Steuermann - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Two without coxswain - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-12-11.
6. "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Zweier mit Steuermann - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Two with coxswain - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-31.
7. Gilles Florent at WorldRowing.com from FISA
8. "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Vierer ohne Steuermann" [Rowing - World Championships. Coxless four]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.
9. "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Vierer mit Steuermann - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Four with coxswain - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-01-13.
10. "Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften. Achter – Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Eight - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-17.
11. Vladimir Rikkonen at WorldRowing.com from FISA